You can say it's just politics and that this will help get McCain elected, but how low does one have to go before he gets to the bottom of the barrel where the Republcian Presidential nominee currently is sitting.
In the last week, McCain's camp has gone 100% negative with ridiculous ads that every organization has said is full of complete lies, including factcheck.org, an organizaiton that McCain once sat on the board of before he launched this current Presidential bid.
McCain's campaign is feeding red meat to the base and it has definitely gotten him a bump in the last week, but the media, which McCain used to consider his base, is turning on him hard:
St Petersburg Times: “The Straight Talk Express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter. Sen. John McCain has resorted to lies and distortions in what sounds like an increasingly desperate attempt to slow down Sen. Barack Obama.”
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter: In the middle of John McCain's dopey Britney & Paris attack ad, the announcer gravely asks of Barack Obama: "Is He Ready to Lead?" An equally good question is whether McCain is ready to lead. For a man who will turn 72 this month, he's a surprisingly immature politician—erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice. The youthful insouciance that for many years has helped McCain charm reporters like me is now channeled into an ad that one GOP strategist labeled "juvenile," another termed "childish" and McCain's own mother called "stupid."
Dallas Morning News: McCain does voters a disservice by creating a caricature of his opponent instead of explaining their many differences on issues. Even some Republican strategists are troubled, saying that Mr. McCain appears to be swinging wildly
Tte straight-talk express has completely been taken over by Steve Schmidt, the vile protege of Karl Rove. What kind of person would cede control of their campaign to the same folks that crafted the "McCain fathered a black baby" campaign that lost him the 2000 nomination? What lack of scrupuls do you have to have to sink that low? How desperate does one have to be? Is McCain that morally bankrupt?
